Experimenter
Illusion sets the stage. Deception reveals the truth.
2015-10-16 | 97 minutes
Plot Summary
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.
Cast
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Peter SarsgaardStanley Milgram
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Winona RyderAlexandra "Sasha" Milgram
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Jim GaffiganJames McDonough
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Edoardo BalleriniPaul Hollander
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John PalladinoJohn Williams
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Kellan LutzWilliam Shatner
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Dennis HaysbertOssie Davis
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Danny A. AbeckaserBraverman
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Taryn ManningMrs. Lowe
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Anthony EdwardsMiller
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Lori SingerFlorence Asch
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Josh HamiltonTom Shannon
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Anton YelchinRensaleer
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Adriana RandallMrs. Stein
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Donnie KeshawarzBruno
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Michael SiberryGeorge Bellak
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Ned EisenbergSolomon Asch
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John LeguizamoTaylor
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